Muslim Mobilisation, Urban Informality, and the Politics of Development in Tanzania : An Ethnography of the Kariakoo Market District

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Kirby, Benjamin:
Muslim Mobilisation, Urban Informality, and the Politics of Development in Tanzania : An Ethnography of the Kariakoo Market District.
Leeds , 2017
( Doctoral thesis, 2017, University of Leeds)

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This study stages an illuminating analysis of religious politics in Dar es Salaam and Tanzania from below. At its heart is an original account of Muslim political mobilisation in Tanzania that foregrounds the everyday lives of urban actors in Kariakoo, a super-dense market district at the centre of Dar es Salaam. Under British colonial rule, Kariakoo was Dar es Salaam‟ s principal African residential neighbourhood; the beating heart of the city‟ s lively cultural scene and the cradle of Tanganyika‟ s African nationalist movement. Today, Kariakoo has grown into one of the most important commercial districts in the East African region. In 2012 and 2013, it was also the site of episodes of Muslim mobilisation which led to clashes with state police and armed forces.
Drawing on rich data derived from fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the neighbourhood, I ask what the everyday life of Kariakoo reveals about religious politics in Tanzania. More specifically, I use it to investigate the intersections between Muslim mobilisation, informal livelihood practices developed by urban users in response to escalating conditions of economic precarity, and popular discontent concerning entrenched inequalities and uneven development along religious lines.

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Item Type:	Doctoral thesis
Keywords:	Muslim; Muslims; Islam; Christian; Christians; Tanzania; East Africa; Africa; African; Dar es Salaam; Zanzibar; Kariakoo; Market; Politics; Political; Anthropology of Religion; Urban Anthropology; Urban Studies; Religious Studies; Urban Theory; Postcolonial Urbanism; Southern Urbanism; Kiswahili; Swahili; Religious Politics; Muslim-Christian Relations; Urban Religion; Mobilisation; Informality; Development; Precarity; Inequality; Livelihoods; Ethnography; Colonialism; Conspiracy Theories
Institutions of the University:	Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies
Result of work at the UBT:	No
DDC Subjects:	200 Religion 200 Religion > 200 Religion
Date Deposited:	19 May 2022 06:55
Last Modified:	19 May 2022 07:15
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/69631